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northeast corner, where there was at least a foot of dumped earth 
below the bottom stones. In this earth were found several scattered 
fragments of a skull, a clavicle, an upper rib, and part of a jaw—all 
of which were more solid and strong than those buried within the 
vault, perhaps from being better protected. Under a stone at 
another point lay the broken lower jaw of an adult, with no other 
bone near it. In close proximity to the fragments first men- 
tioned, extending under the wall from its inner to its outer face, 
were unearthed a humerus, fragments of a hip bone, a vertebra, ribs, 
and a scapula, all lying as if thrown in at one time with a load of 
earth. Clearly these last three deposits were gathered up with earth, 
possibly from shallow graves, and dumped in promiscuously. 
Outside of the vault, lying close to the wall at the northeast corner, 
were two small pieces of skulls, one of an adult, the other of a child. 
North of Mr. Ewing’s house, on the edge of a bluff rismg abruptly 
from the Missouri river, were 6 mounds, all in the primitive forest. 
Four were opened. 
MOUND No. 8 
The mound farthest west was not more than afoot high. A crushed, 
decayed skull lay 4 feet north of the center, with a few fragments 
of long bones (one a femur) 2 to 3 feet north and northwest of it. 
There were no traces of other bones. A few potsherds and flint 
chips lay loose in the earth, some of them on the original surface. 
MOUND No. 9 
The third mound in this series, 200 yards northeast of the first, was 
35 feet in diameter and 3 feet inheight. At the center was a grave 
dug a few inches into the subsoil, in which lay the remains of two 
bodies, extended in the same direction, with the heads toward the 
east. Only the skulls and leg bones were left, and these were very 
soft and fragmentary. The teeth of one skull were much more 
worn than those of the other. Nothing was found with them, and 
there were no other remains in the structure. 
MOUND No. 10 
The fourth mound, 65 feet northeast of the third, measured 40 feet 
in diameter and 5 feet in height. A space 22 feet wide was cleared 
out around the center. A foot below the apex were portions of a 
femur and a tibia, probably intrusive; near the center, at the bot- 
tom, a portion of a skull was discovered, lying on the left side, facing 
west. Nothing else was found in this mound. 
